How do you make something as undignified as a cow bell sound fancy enough for a museum catalog?
Well, first of all, you dig up das ursprüngliche deutsche Wort von der Schweiz. Then you find words not used in the vernacular to describe whatever "artistic" elements you can find. And voilà: "Cow bell (Treichel) on leather strap with applied metalwork, 1813".
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